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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Who ever says, no one in x group bears any personal responsibility for where he or she finds him or herself or for his or her actions because of the history of that group's treatment? (Hint: Exactly no one.)
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That's not what was said. What was said is that it is invalid to examine a group's responsibility (not personal responsibility) if that group was oppressed, as that group cannot be responsible for its own circumstances, as all actions responsive to or following the oppression are still entirely the fault of the oppression.*
I agree with what you have said here, but it's a different point.
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* ETA: This is wrong both because the "group" construct is invalid, and for the reasons your point makes. (If it's absurd to say no individual of a group bears any personal responsibility for his own circumstances, it's absurd to say no entire group bears any for its.)
ETA2: My bad... I just noticed I inadvertently included “personal” in the sentence to which you replied. It should just be “responsibility” alone. No group can have personal responsibility.
